Something in me wants to die
End my misery

Something in me wants to live
By the Baltic Sea

A contradiction is what I am
Woe, woe is me

I journey on as best I can
I journey quietly

                  Tired.

At least once in his political career,
Franklin Roosevelt wrote a book review.




Dear President George W. Bush,

Please find herewith the manuscript of Heidegger's Sein Und Zeit. Kindly limit your review to 1500 words.

Regards,

Perhaps you who give me my sentence
Are in greater fear
Than I who receive it.

                   - Giordano Bruno

Jesus was mythologized
Because of the way he died

George W. was debunked
Because of the way he lied

Lonely isolation
Not a female friend in sight
Rarely conversation
Paranoia plight

Way off in the distance
A flicker from the past
Rendezvous resistance
Hey Now! Everlast

2037
3772
Colorado Rockies
Pondicherry Zoo

Hamnet. Susanna. Judith.
Sleepy Staunton, Virginia
Jimmy Reed Indeed
And everything within ya

With Light comes the Shadow
I drive home alone
Early days in Venice
Future still Unknown

            Tintoretto!

Things could go very bad with America
Racehate and Apple pie
Wanna help my brother Scott
Before my time to die

Gave him I Walk the Line
Saw the Southern Cross
He gave me a nice black jacket
She gave me the wisdom of loss

I gave her her father's prayer
Don't know how this ends
Mike Dunlap is right
We parted the closest of friends

               Water Wends

Our politics is dismality
Do we really **** this bad?
Boring, boring, boring life
But gratitude for dad

Movies are good companions
True Grit gives me hope
There must be women priests
Sorry, Francis Pope

Gay people should be able to marry
We all need help from above
The anguish of the animals
Help from Andy Dove

Mr. Charles Darwin
The same birthday as Abraham Lincoln
Judi and I in biology class
I just sit here thinkin' ...

              Extrasolar Water!

i am acquainted with illness
throughout my adult life

grateful for rare stillness
knifecuts through the strife

sensitivity is a blessing
and also a cruel curse

my son pulls through in Dublin
thanks to the Irish nurse

sky of blue today
many months since I've seen deer

Alpha Chi glasses
she does not appear

but can she hear?

O ye Americans! Time to panic.
Your Republican Party is now
                    Satanic.

Quotes Mr.Markson

Springsteen at the Fox Theater
Detroit is softly snow
Waitin' on the Ghost of Old Tom Joad
I'll probably never know

Steinbeck statue in Monterrey
Tidal pools at the beach
She's just beyond my memory
But forever out of reach

When she was 17
22 and 53
She knows some of my secrets
What will become of we?

              Come and See.

Said David Brooks

(who still has never apologized
despite the literally hundreds of thousands
of innocent Iraqi dead)

Meanwhile, David is still a pundit
For PBS and the New York Times.

Disgusting.

Preach the Gospel at all times.
Use words if necessary.

      - St. Francis of Assissi

Talkin' to Q
Wonderin' what to do
Anxious too

       relax. rest. recover.

the American story not freedom glory
but rather a story of race

today the mixing quite intense
people from nearly every place

at times race wars, at times attraction
strangers in our space

colors, complexions, musical meetings
brown analogies trace

human life in variety
both gunfire and lovely lace

No one dies alone
But actually we do

Abandoned by life itself
When this life is through

Gotta walk that lonesome Valley
Shadow in the Night

Words cannot console
Only silence is not trite

Silence is insight.

The psychiatrists say psychosis is bad
But the poets know psychosis is actually good

So ya better watch out
If you see me in your neighborhood.

Actually, I try to reach out
              In the Night
              Dear reader

Bill Moyers: So, Richard, which one is it: Mexican or American?

Richard Rodriguez: Actually, I'm Chinese.

Steve Martin, philosophy major
            and banjo player
            Words, Roxanne!

Says Roxanne.

Elle King and her Song of Sorrow
Another cold November day
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

    Who’d want to live longer anyway?

St. Augustine's admission that even he could not understand God's purpose in creating flies.

Kafka was a vegetarian.

I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull it nauseated me.

Says Darwin's Autobiography

Post Mozart on Facebook
Photos of Japan
She is what I wish
But I am not her man

I like this October weather
Don't need no ceiling fan
I'm just going day by day
Don't really have a plan

I hope my son makes the team
Poor Afghanistan
2 if by sea
1 if by land

                   Boston!

No mythology today
Lunch. Walk. Park.
my beautiful boys

          and me
  (nothing special)

I can't really stop writing
But I have tried. I have tried.
Mr. Markson spoke troubling truths
George W. Lied

St. Augustine was from Africa
His mother was Berber
Why did God create flies?
Spider-Man deserver

Jefferson Davis
Is Miles Morales's father
I have 3 sons
She has two daughters

Baltimore, like Chicago
One Dark Knight
Thank you kindly, James
I still see 2 green lights

           I still fight

So sometimes I think of Adeodatus
And his mother, whom Augustine never names
Augustine becomes a saint
Drops her for God
Writes great theological works
Influences the Catholic Church
For centuries after his death
Is rediscovered and influences
The Protestant Reformation also.

Adeodatus dies at 18.
His mother fades into the anonymous past.

Lord make me chaste, but not yet.
That is an honest prayer!

But what about her?
What would she think
Of her now famous ex-lover?

Unde Malum? tormented Augustine
Camus (another North African) as well.

Me too.

Never been to Algeria. Or Ostia.
But I have been to Rome
Contraria Sunt Complementa
De Docta Ignorantia. Tryin' to get home.

😀

Mark Twain on the Book of Mormon:

Chloroform in print.

I left my capacity for hoping on all the little paths that led to Zelda's sanatoriums, said Scott.

Students: Are we alone in the Universe?

Guru: Yes.

Students: So there are no others?

Guru: They are alone too.

I am definitely not a saint
But he said I was a gift
Mark Rothko, he could paint
My dad gave him a lift

I saw him at George Mason
Been to Asbury Park
To find the light, he said
You have to go through dark

My letter to her was honest
And too much information
Seattle in the twilight
My soul in elevation

Dearest Emily
I try to break on through
Wild Nights in Kyoto
Wild Nights with you

              Adieu.

hospitals and jail
marital torment and travail
my silent inner wail

           endurance without assurance

That's what the caring nurse
Calls bipolar disorder.

some unusual experiences I don't understand
                  but no one important

                              extinction

Mystics on a mountaintop
In China and in Spain

I too love the mystics
But my love too is all in vain

In Taiwan and Tokyo
I took the downbound train

I became a father thrice
In this world of pain

Say goodbye, America
Your Empire cannot sustain

I am not a scholar
But I've read some scholarly books
I like Dr. Cohen
Don't like David Brooks

Tel Aviv was blue
Jerusalem was brown
Dublin for a couple months
When Love Comes to Town

I hope I rest in peace
Please courage at the end
The silence is eternal
Silence be my friend

                  Ole!

Alex's books on hip hop and Spain
      New World racist disasters
                     y ahora:

     The mob against their Masters.

I like the little poems
I like the misty rain

I like to forget the guilt and fear
and learn to live again

basketball bounces in the dark
Lorca looms in Spain

in Sacramento my friend Mark
think I’ll ride that Midnight Train